The Seaforth News, 1952-12-25, Page 2"Dear Anne -fist: Since I
left my husband, my little boy
and I have lived with my par-
ents; my husoand supports us,
I am 82, I pay board and do all
the housework, My mother does
not approve of
my going any-
where, even
with a girl
friend to the
movies.
"She says I
made a mis-
take, a u d I
must pay for it.
She goes out
often.
"She refuses le mind the baby,
and will not let me get a sitter.
More than once, she has asked
me to leave; hist I feel my son
is better off he,•o than in furnish-
ed rooms in care of someone else,
because I'd have to go to work.
She calls hie awful names. I ani
not a bad girl, Anne Hirst, and
never was; my reputation has al-
ways been good.. . My father
never interferes Ile .hakes good
money, and I know I'm not the
burden my mother claims, I've
never asked them for a penny;
I worked before the baby came,
and saved and paid tor every-
thing myself.
Wrio IS TO BLAME?
"Before I married, I loved to
parties and dames and have good
times, I'd like to go now, to see
if the world Still goes around!
Two and three months at a time
pass without my going anywhere.
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Can you :Magna how this elects
me?
"Your answer I know, will
not change my mother's mind.
But for myself, I'd like to know
whether I am to blame. Or is
she right?
11. W.
., It is hard or one who does
" not know your mother nor you
* to justify her unreasonable re-
* striations. One who enjoys
° people as you do continues to
° need their companionship;
* without it she cannot but grow
* dull and irirospective, her
* nature is tva'.ped and her out-
"' look bitter. Your mother en-
* jays her own friends, and your
°` presence allows her to see
* them more viten.
* She and you are at (ross•
* purposes, You do not tell me
* haw she felt about your mar-
* riage, or your leaving your hos-
* band, which might explain a
* great deal. You lived with
* him, you say, but a short while,
* found that all he wanted was
* to do as he pleased; you con-
"' eluded he n.), er did love you.
* Yet he comes to see you and
° the boy frequently, so there
* can be really no caustic feel-
* ing between you.
* I am at a loss to understand
* why your father allows your
"` life to be s., circtunscribed
" unless he is under your
o mother's thumb and only by
* staying there can he find any
4' peace at home.
* No one else can definitely
* say who is at fault. From your
* letter, I eon,:Iude that a con-
* filet of personalities is the sic-
* tual cause, and it is probable
* that has witted for a long,
° long while.
o One solutio), (if your church.
° permits,) is a divorce, and an
° allowance that will permit you
° to care for your boy unaided.
* Can this be arranged?
0,
When yon .rite Anne Hirst,
be explicit in giving her back-
ground upon which to base an
opinion of your problem. She
can be of greater help ... Write
her at Box 1, 113 Eighteenth St„
New Toronto, Ont.
Legend of the Laurel
That the longing for greenery
which has become an instictive
trait of the Briton no matter
what part of the world he hap-
pens to be in, snakes us cherish
the few plants whose foliage has
not yet been shed. Who is there
that does not associate the dark
days of winter with the glossy
foliage of our evergreens?
Traditions and legends have
gathered round the laurel, holly,
ivy, and mistletoe. One of them
is that these evergreen shrubs
a n d trees do not shed Their
leaves, but this is wrong.
it is true that there is no regu-
lar season for the fall of the leaf,
as in ordinary f or est trees,
though a holly -bush in May and
June looks thin and meagre com-
pared with its Christmas appear-
ance. As a rule, however, all so-
called evergreen plants gradual-
ly replace the old leaves with
new, and so are constantly chang-
ing their foliage.
Reason why evergreen plants
can maintain their foliage so
long, when others so readily shed
it, is that the thick skin of the
leaves prevents too rapid
"breathing" which produces fall
of the leaf generally. This thick
skin also enables evergreens to
withstand extremes of heat and
cold.
Most evergreen leaves last sev-
eral years. The holly, for in-
stance, produces new leaves each
season, but each new leaf lives
three or four years, and although
there is a leaf fall every year, it
affects only the oldest leaves. and
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MEET
The Tartan plaid
and Nippon silk
spar for
prominence at a
Spanish embassy
party in London
as Sir Shane
Leslie, Bart., first
cousin to Prime
Minister Winston
Churchill chats
with Madame
Yoshio Suzuki,
wife of the
Japanese
embassy's
commercial
councillor.
the foliage as a whole is always
lull and green,
Queen of the evergreens .is the
laurel—a name wrongly applied
to several different varieties of
shrub, even though there is only
one true laurel, the Bay Laurel.
This is the poet's laurel, and
since the time of the ancient
Greeks this shrub or small tree
has been held in veneration,
Its berried twigs, twisted into
a wreath or crown, were used to
adorn the victors in Grecian
games of strength and skill. The
laurel crown came to be regar-
ded as the distinctive reward of
valour or of scholarship.
Another false notion is that the
evergreen mistletoe is the arch
enemy of the apple -tree and is
very fond of growing upon it as
a parasite. But botanists have
collected the names of over thir-
ty trees on which the mistletoe
has been found growing, and of
these the thorn is the -one most
affected by it, The mistleco' is
way down at the bottom of the
apple's danger list.
Why, then, did the mistletoe
and the apple -tree become so
firmly linked in legend? Because
the ancient Druids were much
more observant .nature — lovers
than we are. It was on account
of the rarity of the occurence
of the mistletoe on the apple -tree
that they gathered it with such
ceremony and reverence.
City With A Roof
11 Prof, Ambrose M. Richard-
son, an architect on the faculty
of the University of Illinois, has
his way the city of the future
will be roofed by domes formed
of plastic "pillows," Nobody will
have to carry an umbrella, wear
overshoes or shovel snow. When
some adventurer returns from
hiking in the open country he
will boast of the brooks through
which he splashed or the wind
and slanting rain that fuffeted
hint.
Skyscrapers are too tall for
that. ,Plastic pillows are to be
lied with helium and joined to
make domes that flout a mile up
at the ends of heavy, anchoring
cables, The materials are avail-
able and there is no technical
reason why the conception
tit•••„0'1 not be carried out, pro-
vided some experimentally In-
clined philanthropist will pay
fee x smallscale demonstration
on an acre of land,
After the one -acre demonstra-
tion, Richardson would cover a
football field or a baseball park.
Then would come a whole cam-
munity, which would be roofed
by thousands of transparent
pillows each only a few feet
square. Domes would be trans-
parent,
Riehardson provides an open-
ing at the top of his roof so
that cool air can flow down and
force out hot air under the dome-
edges, whieh would be ten or
twelve feet from the ground.
Power plants and other smoke -
generators would have to be
built and maintained outside of
the domed community, Rails
would be caught and used for
drinking and for watering vege-
table and flower gardens. There
will be no need of roots on
houses. Walls will be very light
—mere partitions for privacy.
Richardson holds that a city
roofed with his plastic pillows
will survive bombing. The dome
will be blasted or puctured,
walls will collapse, but repairs
will be easy.
The warden of the Virginia
State Penitentiary offered the in-
mates an opportunity to enroll
for courses in practical subjects,
and some of the boys applied
for lessons in key -making!
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A married couple in Dayto31.
Ohio, renounced smoking, drink-
ing, owning a motor -car and
theatre - going for twenty - five
years, and thus amassed savings)
of $40,000. They kept this sura,
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one day recently the husband
burned it up with the rubbish.
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